tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88532052003528693822018-08-21T21:47:43.385-07:00Female-Musician.com's BlogFemale-Musician.com's blog highlights women featured within the Female Musicians' Directory and the more well-known or accomplished female musicians of the past and present as well as female musician-related news and other news and musicians we feel should have a place within the pages.G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-29046880137699041272014-06-15T12:48:00.000-07:002014-06-15T12:48:43.516-07:00FEMALE-MUSICIAN.COM JINGLEIn my efforts to get the word out about www.Female-Musician.com, I have written a jingle. &nbsp;Take a listen to it on Soundcloud below.<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153313083&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true" width="100%"></iframe> <br />I have a goal to get more exposure to the website and to all the female musicians who have listings inside of it. &nbsp;To make that happen, I'm doing everything within my power and budget to drive traffic to the website, Facebook fan page and this blog.<br /><br />I envision this jingle being played on radio, television and any other possible media outlets to bring more female musicians to the site, encouraging them to create their own pages and to bring more engaging traffic to the site to make it very much worth their while to be listed there.<br /><br />If you would like to help me reach my goal, my campaign can be found at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gofundme.com/support-female-musicians" target="_blank">www.gofundme.com/support-female-musicians</a> or directly on the main website at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.female-musician.com/help-support-female-musicians.html">www.female-musician.com/help-support-female-musicians</a>.<br /><br />My hope is the make www.female-musician.com THE place to look when someone is trying to find just the right female musician for their project. &nbsp;I want them to be able to be listed within the website for free, yet have real exposure that gets them REAL RESULTS.<br /><br />If the website makes money organically through people entering sweepstakes, trying out products, taking a look at sponsored advertisers, etc., there can be regular blog posts, newsletters, press releases and other means of advertising that will help highlight all the musicians without them needing to pay membership fees. This will also help me keep the website going and improving it year after year.<br /><br />Thanks for your support!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/GvCDUuQCJX4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2014/06/female-musiciancom-jingle.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-26876304081582962122014-05-29T12:52:00.003-07:002014-05-29T12:58:58.284-07:00HELP SUPPORT AND IMPROVE FEMALE-MUSICIAN.COM<html><body> <center><td style="vertical-align: top;"> <h1 style="text-align: center;">HELP SUPPORT FEMALE MUSICIANS</h1></center><div style="text-align: center;"> <h3>LEND YOUR SUPPORT TO FEMALE-MUSICIAN.COM</h3></div><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="VK3QW9EE9BZKE" /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" />&nbsp; </form></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="About_Female-Musician.com"></a>About Female-Musician.com</h2><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ryvKTjfQQPo" width="420"></iframe></div><br />Hello Fellow Music Lover.<br /> <br />I'm Giovanna Westwood, and I'm a female bass player/vocalist as well as the creator of Female-Musician.com. You can find out more about me on my <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/about-me.html" target="_blank">About Me</a> page within this website or at <a href="http://www.giovannawestwood.com/" target="_blank">www.giovannawestwood.com</a>.<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: center;">Origin of Female-Musician.com</h3>I created Female-Musician.com in 2009 out of my own love and passion for music and my admiration for other women who have influenced me and who have made their mark in the music industry as females in command of their instruments.<br /> <br />From the beginning, I had lofty but very attainable goals for the website.&nbsp; Most of which involve my ability to effectively give exposure to up-and-coming female musicians and recognition to those who are already more well-known or even lesser-known but accomplished.<br /> <br />I created Female-Musician.com from the ground up, from scratch. I added a newsletter, a blog, a Facebook fan page and a Youtube Channel to help increase the visibility of the musicians within the website as well as the site itself.<br /> <br />However, I had no idea of all the work and maintenance involved in taking care of it in a way that would keep everything current within the website, blog, newsletter, and social media as well as keeping in contact with all the people who email me on a regular basis.<br /> <br />So, with that being said, it brings me to why I have created these videos and pages within the website. &nbsp;I am asking for your support. <br /> <br />If you feel the way I do and would like to see this website and all the women within it flourish and grow because of the exposure it can bring them, I urge you to continue to read further on this page, or if you're watching this on video, please watch through to the end of the final video, and give Female-Musician.com your support. 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&nbsp;Rack up those points, and you can earn free gifts!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d-hIglOi7gg/U4eLlw88t-I/AAAAAAAAAOs/bg-Lb6ON9yQ/s1600/How+Punchtab+Works.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d-hIglOi7gg/U4eLlw88t-I/AAAAAAAAAOs/bg-Lb6ON9yQ/s320/How+Punchtab+Works.JPG" /></a></div><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"></div></td><script type="text/javascript">var infolink_pid = 73732;</script><script src="http://resources.infolinks.com/js/infolinks_main.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/Sy-3fTPHZ0Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2014/05/help-support-and-improve-female.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-65736441921223804022014-03-06T12:26:00.000-08:002014-03-06T12:26:37.029-08:00PRINCE, 3RDEYEGIRL AND THE NEW POWER GENERATION ON THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW!Prince is an undisputed TRUE musician with seemingly unlimited talent, creativity and longevity.<br /><br />He is also and always has been a supporter of female musicians. &nbsp;Through the course of his career, he has featured and helped propel the careers of female bassists, guitarists, keyboardists, drummers, vocalists and even dancers.<br /><br />Some of the women he has worked with are:<br /><br />Candy Dulfer - Saxophonist<br />Sheila "E" Escovedo - Drums/Percussions/Vocals<br />Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman - Guitarist and Keyboardist<br />Rhonda Smith - Bass<br />Susanna Hoffs - Guitar (The Bangles) Prince wrote "Manic Monday", which the Bangles recorded.<br />Vanity 6 Feat. Apollonia - Vocals<br />Jill Jones - Vocals<br />Ingrid Chavez - Vocals<br />Rosie Gaines - Vocals<br />Sheena Easton - Vocals<br />Carmen Electra - Dancer/Actress<br /><br />His performances with "3rdEyeGirl" and "The New Power Generation" on the Arsenio Hall Show on March 5, 2014 were exciting, powerful and continued in his tradition of supporting and featuring strong female musicians. &nbsp;He also featured in a solo performance vocalist Liv Warfield and her song "Soul Lifted".<br /><br />"3rdEyeGirl's" Hanna Ford Welton on drums, Donna Grantis on guitar, and Ida Nielsen on bass laid a strong foundation for Prince as his rhythm section.<br /><br />If you missed the Arsenio Hall Show, you can see all the powerful performances and the full episode right here. &nbsp;And you can best believe, baby, this is REAL MUSIC! &nbsp;Enjoy!<br /><br /><b>Prince and 3rdEyeGirl "FunkNRoll"</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/k-VnglGuJfE?list=UU7NzoK9i0pWHNNI-eZdsEuw" width="560"></iframe> <br /><b><br /></b><b>Prince and 3rdEyeGirl "She's Always In My Hair"</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Lgm1qWOGYEY" width="560"></iframe> <br /><br /><b>Prince and The New Power Generation "Mutiny"</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Qxaz_L7RIgA" width="560"></iframe><br /><b><br /></b><b>Liv Warfield "Soul Lifted"</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/HBfry97m570" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Prince on The Arsenio Hall Show - FULL EPISODE</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tYJgt4WeD2o" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/femalemusician" target="_blank">Like Female-Musician.com on Facebook</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/702scene" target="_blank">Subscribe to Female-Musician.com's Youtube Channel</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/8Dedc55gKTw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2014/03/prince-3rdeyegirl-and-new-power.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-54176191956917411492012-09-28T09:29:00.000-07:002012-09-28T09:29:31.242-07:00Cruise Ship Performer Horror Story!<h2><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Cruise Ship Performer Horror Story!</span></span></h2><h3><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></h3><h3><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Written by an Anonymous Cruise Ship Performer who wants to stay "anonymous" for obvious reasons. &nbsp;</span></h3><h3><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></h3><h3><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">PERSONAL NOTE: This experience <u>does not</u> represent ALL experiences of entertainers working on this or other other cruise lines. &nbsp;See my further note below this post.</span></h3><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bX5OVx9pNsc/UGXGe71DgpI/AAAAAAAAAGc/PRj4-6YRKs0/s1600/Cruise_Ship_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cruise Ship at Night" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bX5OVx9pNsc/UGXGe71DgpI/AAAAAAAAAGc/PRj4-6YRKs0/s1600/Cruise_Ship_1.jpg" title="" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Doing a write-up/review about working on cruise ships is a double-edged sword. &nbsp;On one hand, I'd love to share the majority of <b>horror stories</b> encountered as a cruise ship performer; crappy supervisors that drive you like sled dogs, having to sell out and do sub-standard songs, only to be shit on and ignored, and even dragged into&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">disciplinary</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">&nbsp;meetings, based on a jerk passenger.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">On the other hand; an influx of US musicians, based on a good review, would only put 'me' out of work. &nbsp;In conclusion, there are 'no' good jobs for musicians on ships; only a job, period. &nbsp;The longer you stay, the more you get kicked around AND seniority does not count out here. &nbsp;No unions, no respect, nothing. &nbsp;Deal with it or move on.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">American Cruise Ship Performers - Not Welcome?</span></h3><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">Most of the crew members are non-American, and they hate you, a US employee. And you'll be expected/required to do many more hours of free, non-paid work. Showband players are 'not only' drowned out by 'tracks' in the show, but have to backup passengers singing!, Ala Carnival Superstars. &nbsp;In other words, unglorified and insulting, demoralizing live Karoake backup.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1nrLFJeBiAU/UGXIGleeXuI/AAAAAAAAAGk/TnLzGGBsboU/s1600/Carnival_Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carnival Cruise Lines" border="0" height="110" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1nrLFJeBiAU/UGXIGleeXuI/AAAAAAAAAGk/TnLzGGBsboU/s320/Carnival_Logo.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;">If you are called into a&nbsp;disciplinary&nbsp;meeting, you will not win, no matter what the circumstances. The passenger or crew member complaint always wins, and supers will gang up on you.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">Since a newer CEO took over for CCL, crew members have encountered tremendous cuts; bad food, cabins that are borderline uncomfortable with the 'reduction' of air conditioning, all to save a few bucks on gas to power the ships. You'll be told that you'll work fair hours on your first contract, but count on those hours being more, and for no extra pay. &nbsp;Plus, hours of redundant safety training, guest management training, etc, etc.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AOv5V5b2YO8/UGXIlDMx3fI/AAAAAAAAAGs/g8FlFE-VPTU/s1600/Puppet_Entertainers_On_Carnival_Cruise_Ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Carnival Stage Show" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AOv5V5b2YO8/UGXIlDMx3fI/AAAAAAAAAGs/g8FlFE-VPTU/s1600/Puppet_Entertainers_On_Carnival_Cruise_Ship.jpg" title="" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">You better be a good game player, and you better have thick-skinned body armor, to work for this company. &nbsp;If you don't like it, there are dozens of others stateside, waiting to take your job.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">Tipping? &nbsp;Forget it. &nbsp;With my job position, I have to tip my cabin steward, the crew mess, the staff mess, etc, but 'I' cannot put out a tip jar!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sub-standard Treatment and Conditions?</span></h3><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">I have to 'lockup' all of my bathroom stuff, meds, or anything that can be tampered with, before my cabin steward cleans my cabin. &nbsp;Remember that out of 900 crew members, you are one of maybe 6 American crew members. &nbsp;You are not liked as an American. &nbsp;I've had cabin stewards put my toothbrush inside themselves, in their anal region, then put them back in my bathroom. &nbsp;You want to get violently ill? &nbsp;Come work here. &nbsp;I've had deodorant tempered with, toothpaste, anything that can purpously tampered with, to force you to miss work, and possibly get fired. &nbsp;I've been sick many times on ships.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fE1DxRd-ybI/UGXJiUe5JqI/AAAAAAAAAG0/NjZexD_qg9Q/s1600/Cruise_Ship_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cruise Ship at Dock" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fE1DxRd-ybI/UGXJiUe5JqI/AAAAAAAAAG0/NjZexD_qg9Q/s1600/Cruise_Ship_2.jpg" title="" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">Other misc situations? &nbsp;I've gone through numerous hurricanes; Ike, Irene, etc. &nbsp;The front office wants to save fuel money, so we go 'through' them. &nbsp;I've been in 40 foot high seas, and even sent self-shot video of hurricane Ike, while on the ship, to CNN I Report, which actually aired on CNN. It's miserable rocking and sometimes terrifying. &nbsp;I was on a ship a while back, that had a screw (Propeller shaft,) break, but the captain drove it back home anyway, at 1/4 speed, through 15 ft. seas, just to meet a deadline. &nbsp;If we would have lost the 'other' propeller, we would have been drifting, powerless, in raging seas. &nbsp;I've been on ships that were hit by 10 story tall rogue waves, which almost overturned the ship. &nbsp;I've sat on a ship, that was anchored in a bay, riding out a hurricane, for 2 days.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">In conclusion, I don't recommend this job to anyone, unless you are desperate. &nbsp;I challenge any and all&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">to persons to challenge me on this information submitted, and I'll remain anonymous, in case I have to do, yet one more miserable contract...</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">End of Post Written by Anonymous.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><b>MY PERSONAL NOTE:</b>&nbsp; According to another entertainer I personally know who has gone out on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and had great experiences, <b><u>never</u></b> go onto a cruise ship as a "crew member". <b><u>Always</u></b> go on as a "guest", and this type of experience may be avoided.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/cruise-ship-gigs.html" target="_blank"><b>CLICK HERE</b></a> to talk about your experiences as a cruise ship musician. &nbsp;You can comment anonymously if you'd like. &nbsp;You're also welcome to comment inside this post.</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/jO9toRSs1iM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2012/09/cruise-ship-performer-horror-story.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-89160732853401088192012-09-25T13:33:00.000-07:002012-09-27T10:10:22.775-07:00Three Phenomenal Female Instrumentalists<br /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Three Phenomenal Female Instrumentalists</span></h2><div><h3>Written by Guest Blogger&nbsp;Nani C.</h3><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Music is a driving factor in how we identify ourselves as people. &nbsp;Music defines our culture and community, and what we identify with can say a lot about who we are as people. &nbsp;While big pop musicians like Britney Spears, Pink, or Katy Perry get a ton of attention, many listeners look for females that focus more on their adept understanding of instruments over their vocals and outrageous stage shows.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">Dame Evelyn Glennie</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Dame Evelyn Glennie</b> is one of the most interesting and important female instrumentalists of our time. &nbsp;As a jack of all trades as it were in music, she is able to play a wide variety of music. She performs with a number of orchestras and contemporary musicians and gives over 100 concerts per year, four months of which are spent in the US. &nbsp;She also takes part in master classes and music in schools performances. &nbsp;She is often seen playing percussion, though she is also well known for playing the Great Highland Bagpipes. &nbsp;One of the more interesting things about Glennie is the fact that she has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12. &nbsp;While musicians in the past have succeeded this way, how does she perform with an orchestra and stay in line with them? &nbsp;She often plays barefoot and feels the music through her feet. She is an amazing instrumentalist that has had an amazing career. &nbsp;If you ever get the chance, try to catch her live at some point.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLqqyPK7FrfDIAo7MUYC8H50Mrsbo2Ji41&amp;hl=en_US" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">Clora Bryant</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Clora Bryant</b> is a well-respected jazz “Trumpetiste” that does more than just play. &nbsp;She is also known for her singing and lectures, but her start came from her jazz career behind the trumpet. She has had a long and beautiful career working with people like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Billy Daniels and Billy Williams. &nbsp;She was also the first American female jazz musician to play in the Soviet Union, at the request of Mikhail Gorbachev.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLqqyPK7FrfDKhwWzknTAZWHIpCdqY347X&amp;hl=en_US" width="560"></iframe></div></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_13485441686002389" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For those that have a sweet spot for the stringed instruments, few women are as well respected as <b>Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn</b> currently. &nbsp;She became famous in the UK in her childhood, appearing on televisions shows involving classical music and conservative style. &nbsp;She made her professional debut at the age of 10 in 1998 at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Fesitval in Germany followed by her concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London the same year. &nbsp;She is also the youngest soloist to record Beethoven and Tchaikovsky violin concertos. &nbsp;As she aged and entered her later teens she started to break out of the classical style and changed to a more flashy, sexy style in music videos donning stylish outfits. &nbsp;In 1995, she released a pop album called&nbsp;<i>The Violin Player&nbsp;</i>followed two years later by an appearance with Janet Jackson on the album&nbsp;<i>The Velvet Rope</i>&nbsp;playing solo in the title track. &nbsp;While collaborations have brought her fame, she has also released albums of her own compositions such as the 1997 album&nbsp;<i>China Girl: The Classical Album 2</i>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLqqyPK7FrfDItmdEd7Do4KmUsvAVbGF7N&amp;hl=en_US" width="560"></iframe></div></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_13485441686002389" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />Nani C. is a writer for&nbsp;<a href="http://howdoibe.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">HowDoIBe.com</a>. &nbsp;If you are interested in a career as a musician, take a look at this site to help you learn what you need to do.</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/aBrE3OCB0A4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2012/09/three-phenomenal-female-instrumentalists.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-91513315227715378092012-08-18T20:36:00.000-07:002012-08-18T20:57:24.835-07:00Russian Female Punk Band Found Guilty of Hooliganism - Receive a Two-Year Sentence<span style="background-color: white; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 24.299999237060547px;">By&nbsp;</span><span class="fn" id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_370" style="background-color: white; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 24.299999237060547px;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/author/dylan-stableford/;_ylt=AkWQzOlYXkFpDBS82TAEL0.ZCMZ_;_ylu=X3oDMTE1ZWZ0ZzA1BG1pdANCbG9nIEhlYWQEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQmxvZ0hlYWQ-;_ylg=X3oDMTMzN2dwYzB0BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDNGJhMzNmYmYtYWUxZi0zZjM3LThiM2YtNGQ4ZDNkMWUzMGVhBHBzdGNhdANibG9nc3x0aGVsb29rb3V0BHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQ--;_ylv=3" id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_369" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration: none;">Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 24.299999237060547px;">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span><span class="provider org" style="background-color: white; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 24.299999237060547px;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">The Lookout</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 24.299999237060547px;">&nbsp;–</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">Three members of</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://pussy-riot.livejournal.com/" style="color: #5d4370; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pussy Riot</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">--a Russian punk band and feminist collective that mocked Russian president Vladamir Putin during a "punk prayer" in a Moscow cathedral--have been found guilty of&nbsp; hooliganism and sentenced to two years in jail.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_7wwEz4WdXk/UDBZkUs6kZI/AAAAAAAAADg/LfVjORH4wIg/s1600/pussy-riot-moscow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_7wwEz4WdXk/UDBZkUs6kZI/AAAAAAAAADg/LfVjORH4wIg/s400/pussy-riot-moscow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">Judge Marina Syrova announced the verdict from a district court in central Moscow, about two miles from the Christ the Saviour Cathedral where the guerrilla group performed its "flash" stunt.</span><br /><br /><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_351" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"The girls' actions were sacrilegious, blasphemous and broke the church's rules," Syrova said.</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_350" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The band members--Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30--were arrested on March 3, several weeks after the performance, and charged with "hooliganism." They've been in jail ever since.</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_349" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The trio&nbsp;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/anti-putin-punk-band-slideshow/yekaterina-samutsevich-left-maria-alyokhina-centre-nadezhda-tolokonnikova-photo-130411097.html" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sat behind a class-walled cage inside the courtroom and laughed</a>&nbsp;as the verdict was read. Prosecutors had sought a three-year sentence.</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_346" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_386">[Slideshow:&nbsp;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/anti-putin-punk-band-slideshow/" id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_385" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Russian feminist punk band on trial</a>]</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Supporters outside the courthouse chanted "Shame!" as news of the verdict spread.</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_387" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"They are in jail because it is Putin's personal revenge," Alexei Navalny, one of them,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/17/entertainment-us-russia-pussyriot-idUSBRE87F1E520120817" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told Reuters</a>. "This verdict was written by Vladimir Putin."</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_388" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The trial drew enormous international interest, sparking catcalls from international free-speech advocates and spawning dozens of protests. There were several&nbsp;<a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/17/pussy-riot-verdict/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">impromptu protests</a>&nbsp;in Moscow, London, Paris, Barcelona and elsewhere on Friday, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/archived-live-blog-verdict-to-be-announced-in-pussy-riot-trial/466748.html" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">numerous reports of arrests</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Madonna, Bjork,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.paulmccartney.com/web/guest;jsessionid=6D380DC04B21A035E8B59FD744473972.lr2PR#" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Paul McCartney</a>&nbsp;and Courtney Love were among a long list of musicians to come out in support of Pussy Riot, calling on the Russian government to set the band members free. Last week in Berlin, more than 400 people joined a protest led by electro-singer Peaches.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yZKaBh9pX64?rel=0" width="560"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_391" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"In one of the most extravagant displays," the Associated Press said, "Reykjavik Mayor Jon Gnarr rode through the streets of the Icelandic capital in a Gay Pride parade ... dressed like a band member--wearing a bright pink dress and matching balaclava--while lip-synching to one of Pussy Riot's songs."</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_392" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">What started as "a punk-infused political prank," London's Independent said, "has rapidly snowballed into one of the most notorious court cases in post-Soviet Russian history."</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_393" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Five members of the group, which formed in 2011, were arrested in January after&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=7kVMADLm3js" id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_394" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a video of a Putin-baiting performance in Moscow's Red Square</a>&nbsp;circulated online. They were detained for several hours by police, fined and released,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/08/146581790/in-russia-punk-rock-riot-girls-rage-against-putin" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NPR said</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_390" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7kVMADLm3js?rel=0" width="560"></iframe></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">But the 10-member Pussy Riot, inspired by the American&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_grrrl" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"riot grrrl" movement</a>&nbsp;and bands like Bikini Kill, vowed more protest performances.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Pussy Riot's stunt at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox church, was a response, they said, to Patriarch Kirill's public support of Putin in the build-up to Russia's presidential election. Putin won a third term as president in March.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Holy Mother, send Putin packing!" the group sang.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The Guardian called the trial, which began on July 30, "worse than Soviet era."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"By the end of the first week of Pussy Riot's trial," the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/03/pussy-riot-trial-russia" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Guardian's Miriam Elder wrote last week</a>, "everyone in the shabby Moscow courthouse was tired. Guards, armed with submachine guns, grabbed journalists and threw them out of the room at will. The judge, perched in front of a shabby Russian flag, refused to look at the defense. And the police dog--a 100 [pound] black Rottweiler--no longer sat in the corner she had occupied since the start of Russia's trial of the year, but barked and foamed at the mouth as if she were in search of blood."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Lawyers for the women complained during the trial that the trio were being starved and tortured in prison. Two&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/russia/russia-election/45722/russian-punk-band-pussy-riot-go-hunger-strike-moscow" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">threatened to go on a hunger strike</a>&nbsp;after they were initially jailed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Their treatment has caused deep disquiet among many Russians, who feel the women are--to coin a phrase from the 1967 trial of members of the Rolling Stones--butterflies being broken on a wheel," the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19041458" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BBC's Daniel Sandford wrote</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>[Related:&nbsp;<a href="http://music.yahoo.com/news/paul-mccartney-sends-support-russian-punks-120614435.html" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;">Paul McCartney sends support to Russian punks</a>]</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Syrova was subjected to unspecified threats during the trial, Russian authorities&nbsp;<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/russia-assigns-bodyguards-to-judge-ahead-of-verdict-in-pussy-riot-trial/" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced on Thursday</a>--assigning bodyguards to protect her before and after she announced the verdict.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Several Russian pop stars, though, questioned the outpouring of support for Pussy Riot.</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_410" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"What is so great about Pussy Riot that all these international stars support them?" Russian singer Valeria wrote on her website,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/entertainment-us-russia-pussyriot-musici-idUSBRE87F0ZO20120816" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according to Reuters</a>. "They must be saying this because someone ordered them to."</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_409" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Art and politics are inseparable for us," the band said in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/02/27/a_4014157.shtml" style="color: #5d4370; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">an interview with the online newspaper Gazeta.ru in February</a>. "We try to make political art. &nbsp;Performances and their rehearsals are our job. &nbsp;Life in Pussy Riot takes a lot of time."</div><div id="yui_3_5_1_23_1345265665462_409" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/VEErUIEKtlY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2012/08/russian-female-punk-band-found-guilty.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-42074329605037926892012-07-11T08:11:00.001-07:002012-07-11T08:13:14.759-07:00How To Create Your Own Page On Female-Musician.com<h2 style="text-align: center;"> How To Create Your Own Page On Female-Musician.com</h2><div style="text-align: left;">Female-Musician.com has been my passion for more than 3 years now, and I've enjoyed every minute of creating, developing and promoting it! &nbsp;I've learned so much myself in just the research I've done to build it and am still learning because of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I absolutely LOVE music! &nbsp;However, I also love the work I do related to the website. &nbsp;To me, although it takes a lot to build a site like Female-Musician.com and take care of everything related to it, it's not really work, it is a true passion.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of my goals for the site has been to give the ability to any female musician who has performance video and wants to have an additional outlet for self-promotion, to make their own <b>"mini-website"</b> within Female-Musician.com!<br /><br />It really makes me happy to say that, now, every woman who plays an instrument and vocalists, have that capability!</div><div><br /></div><div>We're ranking very high in the search engines and are on the first pages (sometimes more than once!) based on keywords that help make it easy to find you. &nbsp;That's the whole point! &nbsp;Female-Musician.com is THE place that <b>makes sense</b> to find you if someone is looking for anything related to <u>ANY</u> female musician!<br /><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"> The Value Of Having Your Own Page On Female-Musician.com</h3><div><br /></div><div>I've personally seen one of the pages of a musician who created a full-page listing within the site go to the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing within one week when we searched her by name, so it definitely works to get you visibility, whether by your name, or whether by a general look-up for female musicians.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>MY PERSONAL INVITATION TO YOU</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="360" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/31vC2XEvNdg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/31vC2XEvNdg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="360" width="480"></object></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/CreateYourPg" target="_blank">CREATE YOUR OWN PAGE</a></div></div><div><br />I've also included video below to show you step-by-step how to get your listing going.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>HOW TO CREATE YOUR PAGE, STEP-BY-STEP</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="360" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CuhrjnBEJv0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CuhrjnBEJv0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="360" width="480"></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I just want to thank all of the ladies who have already placed simple listings inside the site. &nbsp;If you want to take your simple listing to a whole new level, you're welcome to make a BRAND NEW page!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Remember, no matter where you are in the world, you're welcome, and I'm looking forward to seeing your page inside Female-Musician.com!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Website: <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/" target="_blank">www.Female-Musician.com</a> <br />Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Femalemusician" target="_blank">www.Facebook.com/Femalemusician</a> <br />Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/ladybass4" target="_blank">twitter.com/ladybass4</a></b></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/ICrjv8kGg6A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2012/07/how-to-create-your-own-page-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-4444373500750150312012-07-03T11:51:00.001-07:002012-07-03T11:51:15.754-07:00LEARN HOW TO PROMOTE YOURSELF<h2 style="text-align: center;"> LEARN HOW TO PROMOTE YOURSELF</h2><span style="background-color: white;">Did you all know that as musicians, we are "in business" for ourselves? &nbsp;Or, at least, we should modify our mindsets to think of ourselves and talents as we would think of a valuable product - booking agents, managers, producers and others do, don't they?</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2RKwn9aBoMk/T_M1JVkvuII/AAAAAAAAADE/UPzF4bTxUpU/s1600/hungry_shark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2RKwn9aBoMk/T_M1JVkvuII/AAAAAAAAADE/UPzF4bTxUpU/s1600/hungry_shark.jpg" /></a></div><br />When "sharks" see a meal, and they're hungry, they want to eat!<br /><br />Well, if you know enough NOT to go where the sharks hang out and are able to cross from point A to point Z without having to let the sharks eat you, why not?<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"> Knowledge IS power!</h3><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YTeLp5u_qxY/T_M024sygaI/AAAAAAAAAC8/qU6K6x1KAo0/s1600/knowledge_is_power.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YTeLp5u_qxY/T_M024sygaI/AAAAAAAAAC8/qU6K6x1KAo0/s1600/knowledge_is_power.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;">Just as we promote <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/">www.Female-Musician.com</a> through social media, blogs, etc, we are also "promoting" all the female musicians within it, which gives all the women who have pages inside the site more visibility. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Just do a search on Google, Bing or Yahoo for "female musician" or "famous female musicians" (among many other keywords), and you'll find that <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/">Female-Musician.com</a> comes up on the first pages of all of them!</span><br /><br />That means, when you have a page or a listing inside the website, and people are looking for ladies who know how to play instruments, whether they're famous or less well-known, YOU are going to come up on the first page of all these search engines! &nbsp;YOU WILL be found!<br /><br />==&gt; <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/create-your-own-listing.html" target="_blank">CREATE YOUR OWN PAGE FOR FREE!</a><br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: center;"> Promoting Yourself Is A Lot Like Promoting ANY Product or Service</h4><div><br /></div><span style="background-color: white;">As a musician myself, I realize that the same way we promote our website, is the same way I should be promoting myself, my music and my band! &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/">Female-Musician.com</a> and all the services we have through it are all to help YOU be EMPOWERED. &nbsp;If you want to learn more about how to promote yourself, sign up for our newsletter to the right on this page, and you will get <b>7 FREE ebooks</b> that will help guide you into ways you may not have thought of - from building a list to marketing your video and music and even how to create a successful marketing plan.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9nPGm7O2Ijs/T_M26Y79T1I/AAAAAAAAADM/t3nY38equB4/s1600/shark_is_caught.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9nPGm7O2Ijs/T_M26Y79T1I/AAAAAAAAADM/t3nY38equB4/s1600/shark_is_caught.jpg" /></a></div>Don't let the "sharks" have their way with you! &nbsp;You've got the power!<br /><br /><b>Bookmark</b> and <b>share</b> our website. &nbsp;Use our free tools, information,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white;">products and paid promotional services</span><span style="background-color: white;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white;">to help you in any avenue in your career you'd like to go.</span><br /><br />To get you started building your mailing list so you can keep your fans up on all the latest, here's a completely free, no-catch auto-responder system that you can add to your Facebook Fan Page or anywhere else that will allow you to add html coding:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.listwire.com/successnow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_lw" title="List Wire - Free Autoresponders"><img alt="List Wire - Get Your Free Autoresponder" border="0" height="60" src="http://www.listwire.com/promo/listwire-120x60.gif" width="120" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Remember, if you don't already have a page on our website, and you want to be included within it, <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/create-your-own-listing.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to fill out form to create your own page for FREE!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/VlR6cAFPwoQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com1http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2012/07/learn-how-to-promote-yourself.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-80462741733720198202012-05-01T01:20:00.001-07:002012-06-11T17:04:56.630-07:00Tired Of Waiting For Your Video To "Go Viral?"<div style="text-align: center;"><h2>Tired Of Waiting For Your Video To "Go Viral?"</h2><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n2CBS5kNx3M/T5-Vos_SkVI/AAAAAAAAACo/V3GcXjzfzIw/s1600/peanuts_characters_yawning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="149" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n2CBS5kNx3M/T5-Vos_SkVI/AAAAAAAAACo/V3GcXjzfzIw/s200/peanuts_characters_yawning.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tired of waiting for YouTube views?</td></tr></tbody></table><br />We all know the power of video and sites like "YouTube" can't be denied!<br /><br />Being a musician myself, I realize that as a musician, having our videos go viral can mean success in a lot of ways for us. &nbsp;It can also make us feel great to know that our video was so good that people just naturally wanted to see it.<br /><br />But what if you don't want to wait for it to "go viral" to get it out there? &nbsp;It would be great to get real people to your hear your music and see your videos by the hundreds and thousands in&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">days</span>&nbsp;instead of weeks and months, right? &nbsp; <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>&nbsp;I always thought when you posted a video, you'd have to wait for the hits to come in slowly and mount up over time. &nbsp;Well, I recently found out that I could actually "buy" views to my videos! &nbsp;But why would I want to do that? &nbsp;Isn't it cooler to let people just kind of "happen" upon your music or hear about it by word of mouth because the music itself is attracting them? &nbsp;Wouldn't that be the honest way to make it happen?<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Did You Know You Could Actually Help Your Video Go Viral?</h3><br />Well, I've come to realize that it's really all about promotion. &nbsp;And self-promotion is becoming increasingly important in handling our own business as a musician. &nbsp;Believe it or not, we are <span style="text-decoration: underline;">in</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">business</span> for ourselves!<br /><br />Thankfully, it has become easier to promote ourselves now through the power of the internet. &nbsp;You WANT the word to get out about what you can offer to the world, and you want to do it as quickly as possible! &nbsp;If you can buy views&nbsp;to what you have to offer, why not? &nbsp;Why not be excited to let the world know about the great thing you've got going?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F1dGlRmSb6Q?rel=0" width="420"></iframe></div><br />Buying views to your video causes excitement. &nbsp;It shows people that other people are taking a look at what what you have to offer and gives everything a kind of "jumpstart" for the video. &nbsp;It's also useful in helping your video rise in the search engine rankings making it show up on the first pages when people look for it. &nbsp;Plus, you'll gain subscribers, and you'll get sales of your music and merchandise!<br /><br />I've hired people through Fiverr.com (whom, by the way, I've received great service through) for this service until I found out about&nbsp;<a href="http://www.female-musician.com/Youtube-Views.html" target="_blank" title="iBuyYouTubeViews.com">how to buy YouTube views</a>&nbsp;through a service that gets real people to your videos.&nbsp; I found out by chance that I could go to them without worrying about whether I'm being scammed by being told that real people were coming to my video when it really wasn't...it was a script or just a fake view through a "bot"! <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Helping Your Video To Go Viral Through Real Human Views Is Known As Promotion</span></h2><br />You also don't have to worry about being sited by YouTube for the views you get because you are receiving real views from people, and this is a true promotional tool. &nbsp;I bought the service, and have been very pleased with the results.<br /><br />Looking at music as a business-minded person who thinks of him or herself as being in business for themselves makes it so that one naturally realizes that getting exposure for anything you want to bring attention to is a huge part of being successful. &nbsp;Just make sure you also have music or a product that appeals to an audience, and promote, promote, PROMOTE!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/7EuG_As9CZk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2012/05/written-by-giovanna-westwood-tired-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-56659025361019250122010-04-15T22:26:00.000-07:002010-04-16T14:56:11.681-07:00Valaida Snow - 1930's Female Jazz Trumpet Player<h1 style="text-align: center;">VALAIDA SNOW - TRUMPET</h1><div style="text-align: center;">Born - June 2, 1903</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chattanooga, Tennessee</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Died - May 30, 1956</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIiVP8oYV5Q/S8ds5t6YoiI/AAAAAAAAABY/hUwP1WCVFxw/s1600/ValaidaSnow3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIiVP8oYV5Q/S8ds5t6YoiI/AAAAAAAAABY/hUwP1WCVFxw/s320/ValaidaSnow3.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div><br /><div align="center"><object height="355" width="450"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/5A766BFF25B9D9B6&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/5A766BFF25B9D9B6&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="450"></object></div></embed><br /><div></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><b>Valaida Snow</b>&nbsp;<span class="mw-redirect"></span>was an African American jazz musician and entertainer. &nbsp;Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time she was 15. &nbsp;She also sang and danced.<br /><br />After focusing on the trumpet, she quickly became so famous at the instrument that she was named "Little Louis" after Louis Armstrong, who used to call her the world's second best jazz trumpet player besides himself. She played concerts throughout the <span class="mw-redirect">USA</span>, Europe and China.&nbsp; <br /><br />Her most successful period was in the 1930s when she became the toast of London and Paris. &nbsp;Around this time she recorded her hit song, "High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm." &nbsp;She performed in the Ethel Waters show, "Rhapsody In Black", in New York.<br /><br />In the mid-30s she made films with her husband, Ananais Berry, of the Berry Brothers dancing troupe. &nbsp;After playing New York's Apollo Theater, she revisited Europe and the Far East for more shows and films.<br /><br />Later she became addicted to morphine. &nbsp;While touring through Denmark in 1941, she was arrested by the Nazis and probably kept at Vestre Fængsel, a Danish prison in Copenhagen that was run by the Nazis, before being released on a prisoner exchange in May 1942.&nbsp; According to jazz historian Scott Yanow, "she never emotionally recovered from the experience".&nbsp; She later married Earl Edwards. &nbsp;In the 1950s, she was unable to regain her former success.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Valaida Snow </span>died of a brain hemorrhage on May 30, 1956 in New York City, backstage during a performance at the Palace Theater.<br /><br />(<span style="font-style: italic;">Excerpt From Wikipedia</span>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=valaida snow" target="_blank">Search Amazon.com for Valaida Snow</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=female-musician-blog-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/HswFf4egEsE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/04/valaida-snow-1930s-female-jazz-trumpet.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-5097220213496746832010-04-09T20:25:00.000-07:002010-04-10T08:43:00.489-07:00Highlighting The Female Musicians of Female-Musician.com!<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I created </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/" target="_blank">http://www.female-musician.com/</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a little over a year ago in March of 2009, I had a vision...A vision to have a place where women who play instruments could be found by creating a </span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.&nbsp; </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But before I created the directory, I also wanted the website to help clear up a lot of questions I, myself, had as a working musician in various stages of my professional career.....How do you get into a band?&nbsp; How do you get your original music protected?&nbsp; How do you make money with your music?&nbsp; How do you keep your head above water while you're trying to "make it"?&nbsp; The list<br />of things I've learned over time goes on and on.&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the resources within </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/" target="_blank">http://www.female-musician.com/</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, I wanted to help reduce the learning curve for other musicians who may be up and coming.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the beginning, it was just a vision, and there was no one to be listed within the directory.&nbsp; However, I am very happy to report that there are a number of female musicians listed within the directory now - and each and every one of them is a precious gem!&nbsp; See them all right here.&nbsp;&nbsp;Enjoy!</span><br /><br /><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Anna Gilbert</strong></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/vEsxNR6FKYo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/vEsxNR6FKYo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anna Gilbert</span>&nbsp;is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an award winning American singer-songwriter and pianist born and raised </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in Oregon. &nbsp;She has self-produced two albums, and her third </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">album is produced by Grammy Award winner Charlie Peacock. &nbsp;Her </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">latest EP "Like a River" is produced by Sam Ashworth.&nbsp; Find </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Anna Gilbert's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">music at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028IPJNA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=femalemusicia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0028IPJNA" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amazon.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=femalemusicia-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0028IPJNA" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px;" width="1" /> and</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;her latest EP </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Like a River" </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on&nbsp;</span><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=tedNoXSBs3k&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Falbum%252Fyour-kind-of-honesty%252Fid346418287%253Fi%253D346418301%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Anna Gilbert - Like a River - EP" height="15" src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" width="61" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and Cdbaby.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anna's </span>listing and video of her performances within</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "</span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" right </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Ava Lemert</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/mt0ZneV0cMw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/mt0ZneV0cMw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, &quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Female-musician.com welcomes female alto-saxophone player, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ava Lemert</span>, to <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank" title="Female Musicians' Directory">the Female Musicians’ Directory</a>!&nbsp; Ava&nbsp;is an independent artist, songwriter, sax player, vocalist and a true talent with heart, drive and ambition!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, &quot;sans-serif&quot;;">See one of her live performances highlighted right here, and support her new album “ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002X4WWXY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=femalemusicia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002X4WWXY" target="_blank" title="From My Soul by Ava Lemert">From My Soul</a> </span>” <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">available right now over at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002X4WWXY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=femalemusicia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002X4WWXY" target="_blank" title="Ava at Amazon.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amazon.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> . <b>Ava Lemert's</b> a sister out there who’s truly doing her thing!</span></div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, &quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I met her through Twitter.&nbsp; She supported my efforts&nbsp;with my website and really seemed to see my vision very early on in my website's development. &nbsp;I truly appreciate you, <b>Ava</b>!</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, &quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></div><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ella Woods</span></strong><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/8r7UTtOD1KI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/8r7UTtOD1KI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Female-musician.com </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">welcomes female vocalist,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ella Woods</span>, to the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians’ Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">! &nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ella</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>is&nbsp;a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">professional vocalist and the leader of the group in Europe, called </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Magic Platters" listed with the Agency&nbsp;</span><a href="http://etoile-productions.be/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Etoile-Productions.be</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find her CD </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">entitled&nbsp;</span><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=tedNoXSBs3k&amp;offerid=146261.300258727&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ella Sings Ella</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on </span><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=tedNoXSBs3k&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Falbum%252Fsmoke-gets-in-your-eyes%252Fid300258727%253Fi%253D300258745%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Ella Woods - Ella Sings Ella" height="15" src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" width="61" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span>&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go to&nbsp;the </span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians’ Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to connect with&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ella</span> through her </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">listing! &nbsp;You can also visit&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ella's</span> site </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.ellawoods.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.ellawoods.net</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Ghada</strong></span><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/ZHHgdJDoMAY&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/ZHHgdJDoMAY&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Ghada Youssef </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contacted me all the way from Egypt! &nbsp;Please enjoy one of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ghada's</span> performances </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">right here within the "</span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">".&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ghada</span>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and welcome!</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Lori Lynner</strong></span><br /><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Extremes/dp/B000QZSIFI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Little Extremes" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B000QZSIFI&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=female-musician-blog-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QZSIFI" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female-musician.com welcomes female vocalist and guitar player, <strong>Lori Lynner</strong>, to the </span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank">Directory</a>!&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Lori</strong> is a professional singer with over 20 years' experience, live and in the studio, and also plays rhythm, acoustic and electric guitars.&nbsp; She produced an original rock/pop CD entitled "</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Extremes/dp/B000QZSIFI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little Extremes</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=female-musician-blog-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QZSIFI" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" />", which received extensive airplay on "XM Radio". </span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go to the Female Musicians’ Directory to connect with <strong>Lori</strong> through her listing! &nbsp;You can also visit <strong>Lori's</strong> site at </span><a href="http://www.lorilynner.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.lorilynner.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Rochelle Coatney</strong></span><br /><br /></div></div><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/zMkYuYoE5Jc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/zMkYuYoE5Jc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rochelle Coatney</span> is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the female drummer for “<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hollyboots</span>”.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp; Enjoy some of their upcoming performances </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if you happen to be in the Southern California area.&nbsp;&nbsp;Connect with <strong>Rochelle</strong> and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hollyboots</span>" through her listing&nbsp;within</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;the "</span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">".</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In January 2008 "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Hollyboots Band</span>" was formed.&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rochelle Coatney </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drummer/Percussionist) joined the band later that year in September </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and immediately went into the studio to record drums and percussion for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this project. &nbsp;"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rocky</span>", </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she is affectionately known, ties the band together with her brilliant </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dynamics, fills, and grooves on drums. &nbsp;This project has been </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">five </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">years in the making, and everyone is excited to get the show on the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">road.&nbsp; You can check out the band on Facebook or Myspace at </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/hollyboots" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.myspace.com/hollyboots</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<strong>Hollyboots</strong>" has released new music!&nbsp; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Hollyboots" target="_blank">Search Amazon.com for Hollyboots</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=female-musician-blog-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" />.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Tovia "On Drums" Bradley</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/-NYk337XZSI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/-NYk337XZSI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tovia </span>is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one of the funkiest female drummers out there, and I'm honored to have </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her listing inside the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's&nbsp;the former drummer for "Johnny Guitar Watson". </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Tovia </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">can also be found performing with "JGW" on "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="AlbumCopy"><b>The Dream of Dr King"</b></span>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> &nbsp;</span></span><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBiography"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a dream<br />come true for her and her now passed-on mentor. &nbsp;This single collabortion is released to share with the world, and is released for <span style="font-weight: bold;">NON-PROFIT</span> purposes to give back to various foundations. You can get your copy at </span><a href="http://www.digstation.com/ArtistAlbums.aspx?artistname=JohnnyGuitarWatson" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DigStation.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Tovia's listing </span>and some of her </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">performances&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>"</span><a href="http://www.female-musician.com/female-musicians-directory.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Musicians' Directory</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">".&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tovia</span>!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Trei</strong></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/AVrVJhBd_kA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/AVrVJhBd_kA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Trei</strong> (pronounced "Tree") is the first female vocalist to list within the site, and I'm very excited and happy to welcome her to the directory!&nbsp; She found out about Female-Musician.com through an article I wrote and published on E-How.com on "<a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5648103_recognize-overseas-band-booking-agency.html">How To Recognize a Good Overseas Band Booking Agency</a>".&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B0016O3YDE&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Trei's Intro" border="0" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B0016O3YDE&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Trei</strong> has been blessed with a tremendous gift of music as well an ability to connect with the audience. &nbsp;Her musical repertoire is extensive ranging from classics such as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross&nbsp;and Chaka Khan, to contemporary jazz artist such as Diana Krall, Anita Baker, as well as today's hottest acts like Beyonce.</span></div></div><div align="left" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Trei</strong>&nbsp;is in process of creating her&nbsp;new CD.&nbsp; Check out one of her&nbsp;previous releases, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Treis-Intro/dp/B0016O3YDE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" target="_blank">Trei's Intro</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=female-musician-blog-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0016O3YDE" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" />! </span></div></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Treis-Intro/dp/B0016O3YDE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=female-musician-blog-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=female-musician-blog-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0016O3YDE" style="border-bottom: medium none; 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I'm not gonna be sharing or selling </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">your information to anybody else or using it for other than its </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">intended purposes.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Email</span></b><br /><input name="email" size="12" /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name</span></b><br /><input name="name" size="12" /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!</strong></span></div></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/qJEhLHqE7zE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/04/highlighting-female-musicians-of-female.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-25383551481712239692010-03-07T19:24:00.000-08:002010-03-27T10:22:33.346-07:00CYNTHIA ROBINSON - Female Trumpet Player and Funk Pioneer!<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span>&nbsp;</h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">CYNTHIA ROBINSON - Trumpet</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;">Born <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="1946-01-12"><span class="mw-formatted-date" title="01-12">January 12</span></span>th&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sacramento, California</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><big>Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame Inductee</big></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIiVP8oYV5Q/S5RmguDRcPI/AAAAAAAAABI/D-R-RtQmqhA/s1600-h/CynthiaRobinsonAtWoodstock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIiVP8oYV5Q/S5RmguDRcPI/AAAAAAAAABI/D-R-RtQmqhA/s320/CynthiaRobinsonAtWoodstock.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIiVP8oYV5Q/S5Rm_Ej6vpI/AAAAAAAAABQ/-T0aZX8fh_Y/s1600-h/Sly-family-stone-1969-promo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIiVP8oYV5Q/S5Rm_Ej6vpI/AAAAAAAAABQ/-T0aZX8fh_Y/s320/Sly-family-stone-1969-promo.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cynthia Robinson</span>, along with Sly, was part of <strong>"Sly and The Stoners"</strong> in 1966.&nbsp; Through her years with Sly &amp; The Family Stone, she was notable for being one of the first black, female trumpet players in a major American band.&nbsp; She has performed in recent years on many stages through the US and Europe playing with P-Funk maestro <strong>George Clinton, Larry Graham and Prince, and at Sinbad's Aruba Summer&nbsp;Soul Festival</strong> with fellow S&amp;TFS members,<strong> Rose Stone, Jerry Martini, Larry Graham &amp; Graham Central Station.</strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=tedNoXSBs3k&amp;offerid=146261.10000021&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0" target="_blank">Find music fast on iTunes. Search for any artist, song, or album on the store.</a></div><br /><a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3442617-10364616" target="_top">Download, Play, Burn MP3s!</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.familystonemusic.com/" target="_blank">Check out Cynthia Robinson and The Family Stone Project</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/5yPpQy1NOUk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/03/cynthia-robinson-female-trumpet-player.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-21652567261078554072010-03-05T11:31:00.000-08:002010-03-27T10:23:27.131-07:00Thanks to All The Fans of Female-Musician.com's Fan Page!Female-Musician.com's Fan Page is for everybody that thinks it's pretty cool to see a woman with total command over her instrument - playing and doing her thing! I know I think it's pretty cool, and that's where it all began back in March of 2009 (actually, it all began when I picked up an old guitar and started playing it like a bass at 10 years old!). It's also very cool to see a dynamite vocalist that can work an audience into an emotional nirvana!<br /><br />The main website, www.Female-Musician.com is a resource website with the highlight being the "Female Musician's Directory". You can be listed for free on the site. And the site is growing in popularity, so it's becoming very high visibility for everyone included.<br /><br />With your free listing in the site, you also have an option to pay for a monthly subscription. So, what's the benefits of a monthly subscription?<br /><br />1. A listing on the main website.<br />2. Permissions to post your photos, videos, music samples and upcoming events right onto the Female-Musician.com Fan Page directly from your own Facebook page.<br />3. You'll be promoted world-wide!<br />4. Your music, book or other merchandise can be available for sale through the store (coming soon!).<br />6. Be found in the place that makes perfect sense, Female-Musician.com!<br /><br />Thanks again, everybody! Feel free to leave your comments!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/wqYpGhjaGD4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/03/thanks-to-all-fans-of-female.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-2320181098254220962010-02-07T21:36:00.000-08:002010-03-27T10:01:54.342-07:00Mystery Or Secret Shopping Helps Me Supplement My Income!<br>Myself being a musician and always looking for a way to making extra money on my own time, I ran across <span style="font-weight: bold;">mystery or secret shopping</span> in the early 90's and took my chance with it to see if it was real. &nbsp;I wanted to see if you could actually get paid paid to shop! &nbsp;Well, when I signed up with my first <span style="font-weight: bold;">secret shopping</span> company and actually got paid to go to the mall and get some snacks for my friend and I, I realized for myself it was true!<br /><br />I currently perform <span style="font-weight: bold;">mystery or secret shopping</span> assignments in the state of Nevada, and it can be a good way to take friends out as a part of a night on the town. &nbsp;Mystery shopping companies should always be free to sign up with. &nbsp;However, if you shop in Nevada, there will be certain things you'll need to do before you can legally begin to perform your shops. &nbsp;This page will give you most or all the information you need to get started! &nbsp;P.S. &nbsp;I don't make any type of money from the links you see throughout this post, not even Cathy Stucker's book. &nbsp;It's just great information!&nbsp;&nbsp;Happy <span style="font-weight: bold;">secret shopping</span>!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mysteryshop.org/shoppers/" target="_blank">Mysteryshop.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The MSPA</span> is the largest professional trade association dedicated to improving service quality using anonymous resources. With over 260 member companies worldwide, their diverse membership includes marketing research and merchandising companies, private investigation firms, training organizations and companies that specialize in providing mystery shopping services. Their member companies work with their clients to establish mechanisms to measure and improve levels of service.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cathy Stucker</span> is an experienced mystery shopper who has performed a wide variety of retail and service shops for many mystery shopping providers since 1995. &nbsp;Carol is the author of <a href="http://www.mysteryshoppersmanual.com/mystery-shoppers%20manual" target="_blank" title="The Mystery Shopper's Manual"><em>The Mystery Shopper’s Manual</em></a>, the only book for mystery shoppers endorsed by the (MSPA). MSPA also selected Cathy to develop and present their Gold Certification Workshops, and she has presented nearly 100 workshops to shoppers across the U.S. and Canada.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mysteryshoppersmanual.com/secret-shoppers-in-nevada" rel="bookmark" target="_blank">Secret Shoppers in Nevada</a><br /><br />Current Nevada law states that you MUST be an employee of a Private<br />Investigator if you are going to perform shops in Nevada.&nbsp; It is illegal for you to perform mystery shops as an independent contractor. &nbsp;Mystery Shopping Companies and Shoppers caught shopping illegally face fines of $2500 per instance and more.<br /><br />Feel free to comment on this blog.&nbsp; If you want to know more about secret shopping in Nevada, let me know!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/-zpkfz0ufbw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/02/mystery-or-secret-shopping-helps-me.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-26120261636421005072010-02-04T07:38:00.000-08:002010-03-27T10:21:51.151-07:00How to Recognize a Good Overseas Band Booking AgencyMy first time going overseas as a musician was made into a positively unforgettable time in my life. What made it that way? An outstanding overseas booking agency – that’s what!<br /><br />Having worked as a bass player/vocalist in successful bar bands around the Seattle/Tacoma area and feeling that I wanted to experience more in my musical career, I began to look at traveling overseas when the local gigging scene began to change.<br /><br />I was introduced to John Belmont of the John Belmont Agency based in Mill Creek, Washington whom I asked to keep me in mind whenever he knew of any gig that needed a singing bass player going overseas. At that time in my life, I was definitely ready for just that type of new experience. I’m very thankful for John Belmont to this day simply because he’s the reason I learned how to recognize a good overseas band booking agency.<br /><br />He called me one day not long after our initial contact and told me he had a duo that was traveling to Bangkok, Thailand, and they could use someone just like me who could do double duty on bass and vocals to make it a trio. We would play top-40 pop music, and I would do some lead vocals. Well, I jumped at the chance! Even though I had never gone farther than Canada at that point, I barely thought twice. The most difficult thing was to figure out how I was going to handle my responsibilities back home while being over there since the gig was a minimum of 6 months.<br /><br />When I gave my word to John that I would do the gig, he provided me with a contract after telling me all the specifics of the gig – the name of the hotel, how the meals and board was going to be handled, my work visa and my passport details. He asked me to give him a list of all the equipment that I would need on stage and a manifest of the things I would be taking with me. He also got me prepared physically for the trip by setting up appointments for me to go and get all my immunizations for overseas travel.<br /><br />From the beginning, I knew I was in good hands!<br /><br />When the plane arrived into Bangkok after the approximately 27 hour flight, I’ll never forget how it felt to realize I was touching down in a new country – on a new continent – in brand new culture!<br /><br />We were met by hotel representatives at the airport and brought to the Central Plaza Hotel, which was at least 5-star, and beautiful from top to bottom.<br /><br />At the hotel, we were met by the Food and Beverage manager who treated us to a meal in one of the finest restaurants in the hotel where I drank first ever glass of Grappa!<br /><br />Before we played the first note, we were paid our full month’s pay in U.S. dollars. We were also taken the next morning to the U.S. Embassy and prepared for legal working status by receiving proper work visas on our passports.<br /><br />We each had our own rooms in the hotel that we worked in with full housekeeping services. Every day, I would receive an exotic basket of fruit filled with tasty morsels like rambutaan and lychee and other fruit I had never seen nor heard of before. It was fantastic!<br /><br />As we worked our way into the gig, John Belmont himself came to Bangkok to check in on us – not for any trouble; he just truly cared about us! By the way, he helped me pay my bills back home by sending them all to me and made sure I knew how to handle situations where I had to send things back and forth to the states. I truly trusted him, and nothing was ever lost or went unpaid!<br /><br />I had my round trip plane ticket within my possession, so I knew that I wouldn’t be stranded, and everything was on the up-and-up.<br /><br />We played the gig there at the Central Plaza Hotel, and when our 6 months were just about up, the management asked us if we wanted to work another 3 to 6 months. At that point, we were all ready to go, but I’ll say that the experience I had from the first surreal moment of landing on the soil of another continent to touchdown back home at SeaTac airport was probably about the best first overseas touring experience a musician could’ve ever had!<br /><br />Just to recap all the fantastic things the Belmont overseas booking agency did for me:<br /> <ul> <li>I was fully informed of the details of the gig.</li> <li>I was given a contract to sign and copies for<br />my records.</li> <li>I knew what my backline would be before we<br />arrived at the venue.</li> <li>I was asked for a record (manifest) of the<br />things I was bringing to make sure all my equipment was accounted for.</li> <li>I was informed in every detail of how to get my<br />immunizations for overseas travel, and any questions I had were<br />thoroughly answered.</li> <li>My round-trip travel was paid, and my plane<br />ticket was in my possession.</li> <li>My passport and work papers were handled<br />properly, and we were registered at the U.S. Embassy.</li> <li>We were paid for each month in full, in advance, in U.S. currency so that we’d have money to last through the month.</li> <li>Each person had their own room. </li> <li>My agent helped me take care of my<br />responsibilities at home.</li> <li>He took time out to come and see how we were<br />doing.</li> </ul> <br />I hope my experience helps you!<br /><br />Written By Giovanna Westwood<br /><br />www.female-musician.com<br /><br />August 1, 2009<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/3EhIHmrlHQk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/02/how-to-recognize-good-overseas-band.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-29991069077976205332010-01-31T23:47:00.000-08:002010-02-01T08:20:18.243-08:00Handling Lean Times When Music Gigs Are ScarceI know from my own experience how difficult it can be to try to work a regular 9 to 5 job and pursue a full-time career as a musician. Sometimes, one or the other thing suffers. You might have a late gig and have to deal with getting up to go to work early the next morning. You might want to fulfill a commitment to do a travelling gig and feel guilty about asking for time off to pursue your passion.<br /><br />Other times, you just want to play music and take each day as it comes. During times like those, if I wasn’t working a steady music gig overseas or with a band that worked regularly, I’ve done all kinds of odd jobs to be able to comfortably pursue my music and make my ends meet. Sometimes the living I’ve made wasn’t always so comfortable, but it was those times that led me to things that really helped me either earn more money, or stretch the money I already had.<br /><br />Thankfully, I have skills I can use in the regular work force to fall back on, and sometimes a regular job can be necessary, for example, to give you stability to be able to buy a new home. Or maybe to provide a springboard to help you proceed on your journey to true financial independence.<br /><br />Part of my goal for creating <a href="http://www.female-musician.com/musicians-resource-links.html"target="_blank">Female-Musician.com</a> is to help people find ways to make extra money on their own time while working on their music careers.<br /><br />Some of the resources in the site are things I’ve personally done, will do, or that I’m doing right now. People I know personally are using some of these resources to make money. They’re making money from home working on their own time doing <a href="http://www.ratracerebellion.com/"target="_blank">legitimate customer service and office support work</a>. They’re also working as musicians selling their own music using <a href="http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3442617-10491947" target="_blank">TuneCore</a>, <a href="http://www.songcastmusic.com/affiliate/sc.php?id=1553_0_3_2" target="_blank">Songcast</a>, <a href="http://cdbaby.net/dd"target="_blank">CDBaby</a> and other legitimate music distribution resources.<br /><br />In order to make <a href="http://female-musician.com/"target="_blank">Female-Musician.com</a> to be as helpful a site as possible, please feel free to leave your comments about other resources you’ve had success with. I’ll add them into the site to keep all the information current. <br /><br />Hope you can find some great information you can use at Female-Musician.com and in my blog posts. Thanks for reading!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/uy8SKcL4SfU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com1http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/01/handling-lean-times-when-music-gigs-are.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853205200352869382.post-57687348735351338392010-01-30T18:56:00.000-08:002010-01-31T08:06:14.967-08:00Jazz Women of the 30's and 40's<p align="center"><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQmsJp85z7E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQmsJp85z7E&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object></p><br />I'm very thankful for footage like this which shows those ladies that have gone before us. These talented women show a commitment to perfection of their abilities on their instruments.<br /><br />This blog is a way for me to help bring attention to female instrumentalists - obscure and well-known as well as up and coming women players.<br /><br />I look forward to making Female-musician's Blog a place where you can get great information and enjoy yourself at the same time. Your constructive comments and suggestions are welcome!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Female-musician/~4/LQHT40iWe5c" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>G.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13502078646834467606noreply@blogger.com0http://fm-blog.female-musician.com/2010/01/jazz-women-of-30s-and-40s.html